Ecological Counselling

Ecological Counseling offers an approach to the conceptualisation of human issues that integrates personal and environmental factors through focusing on their interaction. By doing so, the widely divergent forces that converge through the development of a human life may be organised into a logical and coherent narrative.

This process attempts to assist people in the recreation of their lives, as is the case with the various forms of counselling.

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The History of Ecological Counselling stems from In 1935, Kurt Lewin, a German Gestalt psychologist, articulated that human behavior is a product of personal and environmental factors and formulated the equation B=(PxE). Urie Bronfenbrenner expanded Lewin's work in 1979 into Ecological Systems Theory.  Ecological Counselling posits that the person is inextricably situated within radically specific and interdependent ecological systems. Additionally, the individual carries particular capacities, limitations, temperaments, preferences, symbolic representation systems and personal historicity through the varying environmental settings in which the person lives. The interactions between the person and environment result in the construction of the individual ecological niches. These niches are what we experience as our world.

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Figure 1 below is a sample of Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System Thoery Model.

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With Counselling Service for You, we can engage with you and explore your inner circle of influences and positiveness, your mezzo circle and macro circles to empower you to focus on the positive influences on life and learn way to suppress or disolve negative factors that pull you down, which may cause depression, anxiety, stress and more.

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